Air Force C-17 aircraft transport boom to the Gulf Coast

Oil spill containment boom sits on a truck at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base (NAS JRB) New Orleans after being off-loaded from an Air Force C-17, from Anchorage, Alaska. The boom will be used to support Deepwater Horizon oil spill response. Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater oil rig located 130 miles southeast of New Orleans that exploded April 20 and sank April 22, causing a massive oil spill threatening the U.S. Gulf Coast. (Photo by Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class John P. Curtis)